ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,270, issued on March 3, was assigned to Squint Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"On-demand state verification using digital image processing and artificial intelligence" was invented by Jacob Hicks (Longview, Texas), Grant Gliner (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Devin Bhushan (San Francisco), Alexander Young (New York), Jim Zhu (San Francisco), Benjamin Weaver (San Francisco) and Dane Laughlin (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to using AI tools such as large language models, grounded computer vision models, and visual-language models to verify that the state of a target is the desired state of the ...